Since 20th century, we may find that spa has been a great vogue all over the world, from East Europe, North Europe, West Europe, South Europe, Middle East, North America, South-Middle America, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, South Africa through China. In fact, spa culture has combined with distictive culture, tradition, landscape of each place, and then create a fresh and delicate flavor. Thus, a spa culture, distictive, stylish, omnidirectional, comes into being.

At present, there are still several towns in the world, directly named after SPA or Bath. Absolutely, these towns are related one way or another with either renaissance of spa culture in middle ages or its even earlier history.

Take Spa, in Liege, Belgium, for example. Spa (capitalized as a place), is world-famous for its hydrotherapy, has now also become a venue for well-renowned SPA FRANCORCHAMPS, a racing car tournament. One town in Warwickshire , middle-south of England, was named Leamington or Royal Leamington SPA, with a population of 44,989 persons. And another town in Avon, south-west of England, was named Bath, with a population of 84,400. In Bath, Romans built some splendid bathhouses over the natural hot spring one century B.C. Till 18th century, Bath has become the most fashionable spring resort in England.

This shows human kind were and are cherishing strong thirst for the coziness of body and soul at all times and all over the world. The truth that natural SPA preserves health has greatly influenced the world for a long time.

Bathing Culture evolving from SPA

Various bathing culture, such as Finnish bath, Turkish bath, Japanese bath, are all incarnating the evolution and change of SPA. Perhaps, in the eye of new-century people, SPA has become a superior and professional bathing culture. After we peruse history, geology and principle of preserving health, we will find that professionalism and modernism of the spa culture is culmulated every little bit from the healthy and magic treatment of water in remote history of various countries.

Yet until recently, the scientists finally manage to disclose the secret of hot spring. The essential oil in the water is lixivium of numerous flowers which are immersed into the upper level of water. In the modern cities it is very difficult to find a natural hydrotherapic circumstance and special water. So people often artificially stimulate hydrotherapic surroundings and corresponding “five-sense therapeutics”ones, where some special materials, good for health, will be dissolved into the water. As stimulating sense organs, nerves as well as brain, the materials will become useful for human health or beautification. So modern SPA comes into being.